This series features recordings of research papers from the Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference which took place on August 31st and September 1st 2012 in University College Dublin. The conference was supported by UCD Research Seed Funding, UCD School of History and Archives and The Society for Renaiā¦
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Prof John Patrick Montano (University of Delaware). Humiliation, destruction and death - Violence and cultural difference in Tudor and Stuart Ireland

Prof John Patrick Montano (University of Delaware). Humiliation, destruction and death - Violence and cultural difference in Tudor and Stuart Ireland

Jess Velona (Adj. Prof. Columbia Law School). Sir Audley Mervyns speech demanding reforms in the Court of Claims - A reinterpretation through the lens of legal history.

Dr Marie Louise Coolahan (NUIG). Biographical sources for the study of early modern Irish women

Mairtin Dalton. Leix and Offaly - The proving ground of plantation

Dr John Bergin (QUB). Adam Colclough - Lawyer, landowner, officeholder, investor, Catholic agent and Jacobite plotter.

Frances Nolan (UCD). '[T]he worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience - by experience'. A consideration of female claimants at Chichester House, 1700 to 1703

Dr Veronica Hendrick (CUNY). Testimony of an Irish slave girl: Indentured servants and the influence of Cromwell

Neil Johnston (UCD). From the 'Humble Desires' to the Act of Settlement - Restoration politics, 1660-1662

Dr Sparky Booker (TCD). Sumptuary law in Tudor Ireland in its European context.

David Heffernan (UCC). The emergence of the public sphere in Elizabethan Ireland.

Dr Benjamin Hazard. Combat medics and military medicine: Irish experience during the Tudor and Stuart period.

Dr Mark Hutchinson (UCC). Governing in a state of grace. Reformed theology and statist thought in Elizabethan Ireland

Dr Marie Leoutre (UCD). The Huguenots and the Williamite Government.

Andrew Robinson (University of Ulster). Sir John Clotworthy and the destruction of Peter Paul Rubens Crucifixion

Dr Julie Eckerle (University of Minnesota, Morris). Re-contextualizing Englishwomens life writing

Bronagh McShane (NUI Maynooth). Representations of violence against women in 1641 rebellion literature

Dr Eoin Kinsella (UCD). The 'dastard gentry' of Ireland: Aspects of Irish Jacobitism during the 1690s

Simon Egan (UCC). The politics of the wider Gaelic world and the collapse of the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles, c.1460 to 1500.

Dr Marc Caball (UCD). Cultural mixing in early modern Ireland.

Dr Matthew Potter (MIC, UL). James Is forty chartered towns of 1613

Paul Rondelez (UCC). Native iron mining and smelting in Ireland, c.1560 to c.1640

Francis Kelly (UCC). Brian O Rourke and the Spanish Armada

Dr John Cunningham (TCD/Freiburg). Divided conquerors - martial law and the politics of conquest in Ireland, 1649 to 1653.

Dr Jill Connaughton. The art of a 'Good Death'.

James O Neill (QUB). Half-moons and villainous work - Gaelic fortifications and the Nine Years war

John O Halloran (UCD). 'By their fruits shall ye know them' - A re-appraisal of the Marian bishops who conformed to the Elizabethan church settlement

Dr John Cronin. Violence and duelling between exiled courtiers - the case of the Caroline Court in exile, c.1649 to c.1660